Driving device for household-machines.



PATENTED FEB. 26, 1907.

R; BRAMBAGH. DRIVING DEVICE FOR HOUSEHOLD MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE1,1906.

was NORRIS PETERS co., wnsnuvcrcm, n. cy

RICHARD BRAMBACH, OF NORDHAUSEN, GERMANY.

DRlVlNG DEVICE FOR HOUSEHOLD-*MACHBNES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 26, 1907.

Application filed June 1, 1906. Serial No. 319,740.

.To all whom it TIT/[0y concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD BRAM'BACH, a subject of the King of Prussa, and aresicent at N orclhausen am Harz, Germany, have invented a new and useful improved. Driving Device for Householidnaclrines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a driving device for machines, and has for its object a device aiaptei to have machines to be nriven by it rea nly connected to the same, and part;cu larly adapted for use in private houses and the l ke.

More particularly, my invention relates to a driving device for domestic or household machines, and in order that the details of construction and action of my invention may .be more clearly understooi reference made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation on the line B B of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional elevation on the l..ne A A of Fig. 1. F' gs. 3 and 4 are sections through the coupling-boxes 10 and 1.1 on an enlarged scale, Fig. 3 being taken on the line D l) of Fig. 4, and Fig. 4 on the line C C of Fig. 3.

Simlar reference-numerals refer to similar parts in all views.

The driving device consists of a hollow pillar l, the interior of which is accessible through doors 2. Inside the pillar is a motor 3, a counter-shaft 4, the pulleys 5, 6, and 7 on the motor and counter-shaft, as well as the belts S and 9. Further, there are on the pillar the coupling-boxes '10 and 11, of which 10 is driven directly and 11 through the counter-shaft from the motor. Further, there are base-plates 12 13 on the pillar, on which plates the separate household-machines are fastened, the slow-running machines on plate 12 and the fast-running machines on plate 13. A meat chopping or mincing machine on plate 12 and a polishing-machine on plate 13 are indicated in dotted lines as examples.

For fastening the separate machines the present driving device has the following fastening device. Below the plates 12 13 screwed. spindles 14, with hand-wheels 15, are revolubly mounted, on the threat s of which spindles a key 24 is pushed. forward in rotating said spindle, which key is guided between two noses 16 on the plates and is pressed into a slot in a pin in rotating the spindle, said pm being on the household-machines, adapted to project through a hole in the base-plates 12 13.

For coupling the separate machines to the coupling-boxes 10 and 11, criven from the motor, said coupling-boxes have the following device: They are formed mold shape, and in their interior is a cast eye 17 with borings of ei'l'l'erent sizes, as well as a pin 18, movable in the eye. Tlrs pin has on its part a collar 19, against which a spring 20 in the larger boring of the eye presses, said spring resting on the other side against a nut 21, screwed into the boring. 'i'he 18 projects somewhat out of the coupling-box 10 or 11, but can be pushed back into the same when the spring 20 is contracted. Said pin serves for automatically engaging in a corresponding hole of a disk on the axle of the different household-machines in order to etl ect the coupling of these machines with the coupling-boxes. Further, the couplingboxes 10 and 11 have a cast ratchet 22, by means of which household-machines with vertical axles, like coffee-mills or the like, can be'driven, as Fig. 4 shows in dotted lines.

A folding shelf 23 is attached to the pillar below the base-plate 12, which shelf serves for holding vessels and the 11:0.

I am aware that prior to my invention driving devices have been used in combination with a plurality of household-machines. I therefore do not claim such a device broadly. In such cases, however, each machine has had its own motor or at least an intrinsic part of the driving device has had to be removed in order to couple another household-machine to said driving device. In the present case, however, my invention has for its object one integral driving device for all household-machines, and it is not necessary to remove or exchange any part of the device forming thesubject of this invention in order to couple household-machines to the same for the purpose of driving them from the same.

1. A driving device for household-machines comprising in combination a hollow pillar, a motor in said pillar, a plurality of driving coupling-boxes adapted to be driven by said motor, a plurality of base-plates mounted on said pillar, means for fastening householdmachines to said base-plates, so that said machines are in position to be driven by said coupling-boxes.

2. A driving device for household-machines comprising in combination a hollow pillar, a motor in said pillar, a driving coupling-box adapted to be driven by said motor, a driving coupling-box adapted to be directly driven by said motor, a lurality of baseplates mounted on said pillar, means for fastening household-machines to said baseplates, so that said machines are in position. to be driven by said coupling-boxes.

3. A driving device for household-machines comprising in combination a hollow pillar, a motor in said pillar, a driving couplingboX, a counter-shaft, a plurality of pulleys on said counter-shaft in said pillar, means for driving said counter-shaft from said motor, means for driving said coupling-box from one of said pulleys, a driving coupling-box adapted to be driven by said motor, a plurality of base-plates mounted on said pillar, means for fastening household-machines to said base-plates, so that said machines are in position to be driven by said couplingboXes.

4. A driving device for household-machines comprising in combination a hollow pillar, a motor in said pillar, a plurality of driving coupling-boxes each having a hole, a spring in said hole, a hut adapted to normally engage said spring and to hold same in said hole, a pin engaged by said spring, said pin projecting outside said c0upling-box and adapted to automatically engage a revoluble driving part of a household-machine, said coupling-boxes being adapted to be driven by said motor, a plurality of base-plates mounted on said pillar, means for fastening household-machines to said baseplates, so that said machines are in position to be driven by said coupling-boxes.

5. A driving device for household-machines comprising in combination a hollow pillar having an opening in its side, a door adapt-ed l to close said opening, a folding shelf attached to said pillar, a motor in said pillar, a plurality of driving coupling-boxes adapted to be driven by said motor, a plurality of baseplates mounted on said pillar, means for fastening household-machines to said baseplates so that said machines are in position to be driven by said coupling-boxes.

6. A driving device for household-machines comprising in combination a hollow pillar, a motor in said pillar, a base-plate mounted on the top of said pillar, a base-plate mounted on the side of said pillar, a coupling-box mounted revolubly on said top base-plate adapted to be driven by said motor, annular means on said coupling-box adapted to positively engage a revoluble driving member of a householdmachine, a driving coupling-box adapted to be directly driven by said motor, means for fastening household-machines to said base-plates so that said machines are in position to be driven by said coupling-boxes.

7. A driving device for household-machines comprising in combination a hollow pillar, a motor in said pillar, a plurality of driving coupling-boxes adapted to be driven by said motor, a plurality of base-plates having slots mounted on said pillar, each base-plate having a screwed spindle revolubly mounted on the same, a key normally engaged by said spindle, guides adapted to said key, said key being adapted to engage means attached to said household-machines whereby the same may be secured in position to be driven by said coupling-boxes.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of the two subscribing witnesses.

RICHARD BRAMBACH.

Witnesses:

FRAU SCHNEIDER, R. A. OSBORN. 

